Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Craig has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for exceptionally meritorious service in France. Captain Spence was the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army during the war. Captain Wogan comes to the University with a brilliant war record. All of these men play polo, and are interested in the development of the game among students at Harvard...
...children," she said, "I spare not my youngest even, my fair-haired boy, the comfort of my declining years; I devote you all to my country. Keep, back the foot of the invader from the soil of Augusta, or see my face no more...
Died. Julie Reinhardt, 80, actress; in Manhattan. In her heyday she played with Warfield, Maurice Barrymore, Rose Coghlan, and many other stars. Later she toured the country for woman suffrage, led a certain Victory Ball with Inez Millholland, (oldest and youngest suffragettes). She died in a narrow room not far from Broadway. Said she: "I was with Jane Cowl-bless her-when she starred in A Grand Army...
...late afternoon of the following day, the Prince, accompanied by his youngest brother, Prince George; his Groom-in-Waiting, one-armed Brig. Gen. G. F. Trotter; his assistant private secretary, Captain A. F. Lascelles; and an equerry, the Hon. Bruce Ogilvy, left the great metropolis for Southampton. Said the British press: "His Royal Highness left for New York this afternoon bubbling over with good spirits...
...well, what I saw the other morning was, after all, only a shy little Englishman trying to put across an invention, just as scared, doubtless, as the youngest ingénue trying out her first speaking line on Broadway. The human comedy is just as amusing, just as pathetic, just as worth playing and writing as ever; and Death, whether by death-ray or automobile accident, just as cruel, kind and inevitable as ever-just as inevitable as bad novels and good novels coming in a steady stream across my desk...